"I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up."

-- Quentin Tarantino

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“We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?”
“Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.”
“My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.”
“When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.”
“If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.”
“Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.”
“He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.”
“I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.”

Source : "Jonah’s Arc". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2015.

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